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[Call Me Arbuthnot]

Clever indeed,
No one has even considered the new particle, dicovered in CERN, the 'Browns Quangotron'. It leaves Higgs and his Bozon standing.

Brown's Quangotron, of course! That must be what makes up the mysterious Dark Matter, the 87% of Brown's fiscal universe that is invisible, doesn't seem to do anything, but weighs down the rest.

And this is the hidden meaning of the original joke? Astounding. It might just have rewritten physics, economics and astronomy all in one, particle-packing go!

[EternalOptimist]

Surely, what he means is that Gordon could not possibly have two ids or egos because they would both be so repulsive they could not live with each other, like the same poles on a pair of magnets.

Whereas an idiot, which has one pole at the end and one in the middle, is quite happy in his idiocy and makes better decisions.

That's profound, and damned clever.

Clever indeed,
No one has even considered the new particle, dicovered in CERN, the 'Browns Quangotron'. It leaves Higgs and his Bozon standing

[stackpole]

er , I think you miss the point here BGG.
The i, clearly refers to the id or the ego. Dumb people often have unrealistically high opinions of themselves, hence two egos.
Gordon Brown does not have two egos, simply one that is has the same dimensions as the horsehead nebula, the same potential to suck the will as a massive black hole and radiates more tulipe than a pulsar.

Surely, what he means is that Gordon could not possibly have two ids or egos because they would both be so repulsive they could not live with each other, like the same poles on a pair of magnets.

Whereas an idiot, which has one pole at the end and one in the middle, is quite happy in his idiocy and makes better decisions.

That's profound, and damned clever.

[EternalOptimist]

Yes, for riddling a pun so clever on the metaphysical level, you can have a cookie.

er , I think you miss the point here BGG.
The i, clearly refers to the id or the ego. Dumb people often have unrealistically high opinions of themselves, hence two egos.
Gordon Brown does not have two egos, simply one that is has the same dimensions as the horsehead nebula, the same potential to suck the will as a massive black hole and radiates more tulipe than a pulsar.

[Board Game Geek]

Am I a genius then? Is that what we're saying?

Yes, for riddling a pun so clever on the metaphysical level, you can have a cookie.

[Doggy Styles]

Am I a genius then? Is that what we're saying?

[MPwannadecentincome]

an idiot would not bail out the banks?

[Board Game Geek]

I didn't get it either.

The punchline to a what's the difference joke is that the tag would be something line "but there's no "i" in Gordon Brown."

I scanned the name "Gordon Brown" and I thought, Hmm. That's right. There is no letter "i" in it.

And then I presupposed you forgot to add "The Prime Minister" before his name, which then I deduced had 3 "i"'s in it.

So I read the joke again.

Q. What's the difference between The Prime Minister Gordon Brown and an idiot ?

A. There's two "i"'s in idiot.

With the unmentioned tagline "But there are 3 "i's" in The Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and suddenly everything made perfect sense.

Good one !

[Doggy Styles]

So what you initially posted was a really tulip joke, that accidently was funny, but you only realised later that it was funny, and your original intention was to tell what we came to now see as a tulip joke, but which you mistakenly took as funny?

I... erm, I...

Who's round is it anyway?

[Drewster]

So what you initially posted was a really tulip joke, that accidently was funny, but you only realised later that it was funny, and your original intention was to tell what we came to now see as a tulip joke, but which you mistakenly took as funny?

I think I understand what I thought you said but I am not sure you meant what you thought you said...... or something

[Solidec]

So what you initially posted was a really tulip joke, that accidently was funny, but you only realised later that it was funny, and your original intention was to tell what we came to now see as a tulip joke, but which you mistakenly took as funny?

[Doggy Styles]

I think we all got it DS, no need to spell out your funnies!

But I didn't get it. I have now though.

[Solidec]

...and only one eye in Gordon.

I think we all got it DS, no need to spell out your funnies!

[Doggy Styles]

There's two 'i's in idiot...

...and only one eye in Gordon.

[Mich the Tester]

Do you think his daddy beat him much as a child?

Would you blame his daddy for doing so?
Gordon, I've warned you already I'd smack you if you kept pinching my wallet and you didn't listen, so it's six of the best. Bend over!